Women and HIV/AIDS Confronting the Crisis Author: UNFPA, UNAIDS and UNIFEM No. of pages: 76 Publication date: 2004 Publisher: UNFPA, UNAIDS and UN Languages: English ISBN: 0-89714-708-1

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This report concludes that women are bearing the brunt of the HIV/AIDS epidemic and that strategies to reverse it cannot succeed unless women and girls are empowered to reclaim their rights. Noting that half of all people infected with HIV are women, the report documents the devastating and often invisible impact of AIDS on women and girls and highlights the ways discrimination, poverty and gender-based violence help fuel the epidemic.

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